# PLANS FOR THE PAMPHLET "ON THE FOOD TAX"
Source: PSS vol 43

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we "catch" them on concessions. But we do not recognize the very soil of bourgeois parliamentarism, of "ordinary (bourgeois) party politics"!!
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"The Economic Bases of the Withering Away of the State" ("The State and Revolution"): here likewise the "economic bases" of the withering away of bureaucratism, of the withering away of the upper and lower echelons, of the withering away of inequality (cf. "First Steps from Capitalism to Communism"). There is not yet an economic base of socialism. What is it? In commodity exchange with the peasantry!!

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+ Note. Significance of the spring (May-June) political crisis of 1921 ("transitions") and the party crisis (XI or IX 1920 - III 1921). To adapt the upper strata of the party to its masses or v.v.**? The Party to the masses (proletariat + then peasantry) or ?.?.
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State capitalism is not to be feared, but is desirable.
To learn from state
capitalism.
Examples:
1) Concessions.
2) Cooperatives.
3) Commissioners.
4) Leasing.
Unorganized capitalism.
Everything in measure and under certain conditions. What is this measure?
"Spontaneity"
c'est le mot*"
1794 versus 1921.
* See Works, 5th ed., vol. 33, pp. 1-119. Ed.
**  - vice versa. Ed.
*** - that's the word. Ed.
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Experience will show.
Food tax and turnover. Directives to food supply officials:
'100+ 100 = 200%? 100 + 25 60+ 60
These (3rd and 4th) types are weak, because we are weak and foolish: Cf. bureaucratism...
Freedom of trade a) for the development of productive forces of peasant economy b) for the development of small industry c) for the struggle against bureaucratism.
Measure? Conditions? Practice must show. Food supply official: collect 100%
100 + 100 = 200 Etwa: 100 + 25 = 125 } 60 + 60 = 120 } Struggle against speculation? Quid est?
Political aspect:
The petty-bourgeois spontaneity will overturn (5/V. 1918):
"Model" the French Revolution
cf. 10. XI
1918 Anti-Kautsky
Pessimism or optimism?
Accounting for forces. Sobriety and fierce passion.
* - What is this? Ed.
** See Works, 5th ed., vol. 36, pp. 283-314. Ed.
*** Ibid., vol. 37, pp. 235-338. Ed.
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